colly vs contaminate

colly and contaminate both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
colly	No	No	Yes	No
contaminate	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, contaminate is a hyponym of colly; that is, contaminate is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than colly:

Other hyponyms of colly include foul, foul, pollute, smear, slime, muddy, muddy up, splash, mire, muck, muck up, mud, crock, blemish, spot.

colly (verb)	contaminate (verb)
make soiled, filthy, or dirty	make impure
	make radioactive by adding radioactive material